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Sodbusters!

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A lesson plan for Grade 3 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies

Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities

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Appropriate grades
3
Subjects
arts (architecture), social studies (United States history)
Provider
National Endowment for the Humanities

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In this lesson from EDSITEment, students examine photographs of sod houses, build a model sod house, and picture themselves living in a ‘soddie’ to gain a firsthand perspective on the frontier period of American history. After completing the activities in this lesson, students will be able to identify where and when American settlers lived, and describe how settlers used available materials to build sod houses. They will also be able to explain how sod houses helped settlers adapt to the environment of the plains, and compare living in a sod house with life in a typical home today.

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Visual Arts Education (2001)

Grade 3

  • Goal 1: The learner will develop critical and creative thinking skills and perceptual awareness necessary for understanding and producing art.
    • Objective 1.06: Refine images of self, pets, family, friends, and environment.
  • Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
    • Objective 2.01: Expands control and manipulation of the media and tools which may include the following:
      • Photography - sun prints
      • Drawing - chalk, fine and broad markers, colored pencils, creates a variety of lines with tip, point and side, computer and software.
      • Cut paper - papers, found objects, fibers, glue, sharp-edged scissors, curling, scoring and stapling, cutting a variety of single and multiple shapes.
      • 3-D - paper mache, small hand tools.
      • Printmaking - cardboard
      • Painting - liquid acrylics, large and small brushes, computer and software.
      • Ceramic - coil construction, compound pinch and slab, addition, smoothing, self-created stamps.
      • Fibers - Knotting, small hand looms for fibers.
    • Objective 2.02: Explore unique properties and potential of materials.
    • Objective 2.03: Demonstrate increased fine motor skills.
    • Objective 2.06: Create portraits, still lifes and landscapes from real life observation or memory.
    • Objective 2.07: Depict self and others in a variety of real and imaginary situations with increasing detail.

Social Studies (2003)

Grade 3

  • Goal 2: The learner will analyze the multiple roles that individuals perform in families, workplaces, and communities.
    • Objective 2.03: Describe similarities and differences among communities in different times and in different places.
  • Goal 3: The learner will examine how individuals can initiate change in families, neighborhoods, and communities.
    • Objective 3.01: Analyze changes, which have occurred in communities past and present.
    • Objective 3.02: Describe how individuals, events, and ideas change over time.
  • Goal 4: The learner will explain geographic concepts and the relationship between people and geography in real life situations.
    • Objective 4.04: Compare how people in different communities adapt to or modify the physical environment to meet their needs.